Chapter 9: A
What did John Deere do?
He created a better plough
What did Robert Fulton do?
He created a steamboat
What did Samuel F. B. Morse do?
He invented the telegraph
What was prohibition?
Calls for a ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol
Who did transcendentalists have faith in?
Man
What did Elias Howe do?
He created the sewing machine
What did William H. McGuffey do?
He wrote elementary reading books with Biblical values
Who was Horace Mann and what did he believe?
He was an educational reformer who believed in the importance of sound moral education
What was the name of the first women’s rights convention?
The Seneca Falls Convention
Who were two famous musical composers?
Stephen Foster and Lowell Mason
What is significant about Eli Whitney and guns?
He made a gun with interchangeable parts (and the part thing spread to other industries)
What title did cotton go by?
King Cotton
How do we know that private education had been successful?
There was a high literacy rate
What did Utopian reformers want?
to establish small, perfect communities to serve as models for society
What was significant about Ralph Waldo Emerson and his writing?
He led the Transcendentalist movement and elevated man and the glory of nature in his writing
What did Samuel Colt do?
He created the six-shooter
Why was cotton so significant?
Eli Whitney’s cotton gin made production soar so that the US was making 7/8s of the world’s cotton; it revitalized the slavery and hampered southern industrial development
What was the Tom Thumb and why was it significant?
It was Peter Cooper’s steam engine train and it was significant because it showed that trains were the way of the future despite the large cost up front
How did other movements help lead to the women’s rights movement?
Women were involved in the Prohibition and abolition movements
What was significant about James Fenimore Cooper?
He was the First American writer to gain fame outside America
What did Cyrus McCormick do?
He created a reaping machine
What was an impact of the Erie Canal?
The cost of shipping plunged OR other canals were soon built
Why did utopian reformers all ultimately fail?
Because of their faulty view of the nature of man. Man’s inherent sinfulness dooms any human attempt to build a perfect society on earth.
How do people characterize the Literary Romantic movement?
-Rejected balanced un-emotionalism of the Federalist and neoclassical styles
-Emphasized the emotional, colorful, and imaginative
-Love of nature, individual person
Where did painting and architecture of the Federalist style find its roots and who was one of its main artists?
Borrowed from Europe and
Benjamin West was a main artist